Hawk Wings » space pen http://www.hawkwings.net Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:44:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Santa Claus, hobbits and the space pen http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/05/10/santa-claus-hobbits-and-the-space-pen/ http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/05/10/santa-claus-hobbits-and-the-space-pen/#comments Tue, 09 May 2006 15:16:50 +0000 Tim Gaden http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/05/10/santa-claus-hobbits-and-the-space-pen/ spacepenThis post doesn’t really have anything to do with what this site is about.

Sometime during your childhood you realise that Santa Claus and hobbits aren’t really real. A bit later, maybe in your twenties, you work out that Marx asked the right questions, but might not have hit upon the right answers.

Advancing age brings further bitter-sweet advances in maturity. I had just such a moment today.

Merlin Mann ruthlessly strips away a myth that has sustained me for many years. I have always believed that the Fisher Space Pen is the archetypal example of American extravagance and waste, the icon of a culture gone mad with abundance.

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